The U.S. government has issued an “isolation order” for a man who contracted a drug resistant strain of tuberculosis, reported by Reuters, on fear that he may have exposed fellow travelers on two trans-Atlantic trips to the disease. This is the first time an isolation order had been issued since 1963, and illustrates how our collective ignorance, along with our…
Read MoreMonth: May 2007
Thoughts on Health: Autism, Closed Minds, and The Magnesium Factor
An article published in the April 2007 edition of Discover magazine featured a reply that encapsulated what has been prevailing thinking in the medical community for too long. It’s available online: Autism: It’s Not Just in the Head. If this subject is meaningful to you, I know it will be of interest, and invite you to go there. Now, please…
Read MoreAwesome Places: Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center
A GETAWAY FOR THE SOUL Patagonia, Arizona — The “tree of life” is a term mostly associated with the Jewish system of Kabballah, whose literal interpretation means, “Received tradition.” According to its Wikipedia entry, the tree of life “is a tree in the Garden of Eden whose fruit gives everlasting life, i.e. immortality. This is a fitting metaphor for the…
Read MoreThoughts on Race and Equality: Arizona Civil Rights Initiative Announcement
On April 26, I attended a press conference in the rose garden in the State of Arizona capital building complex, where plans were announced to launch the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative, which would prohibit race-based preference policies and practices in such areas as university admissions and government hiring/contracting. Arizona was selected as one of five states (Oklahoma, Colorado, Missouri, and…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Religion, Spirituality and Beingness
Bringing Our Highest Self ‘Out of the Closet’ with Love America’s forefathers had the profound wisdom to inculcate a fundamental separation of “church” from matters of “state” into the very fabric of governance. How could the other foundations of freedom, such as of assembly, worship (or not to), and speech (including the press), be ensured if a religion — doesn’t…
Read MoreThoughts on Self Mastery: Desire, Belief, and Intent
When presented with examples of what might constitute self-mastery… such as the ability to heal a cancerous medical condition, transform an abusive relationship, or confronting what we perceive to be an extremely negative, unreachable, or even evil situation, it is easy to tell ourself that if this is mastery, it’s beyond our ability. In essence, we can’t. Though we might believe the…
Read MoreAwakening the Master Within
del.icio.us tags: god, mastery, change, healing, existence, good, love, duality Like the act of breathing, where life rides upon the rhythmic indrawing and release of air and energy through the body, I experience the rhythms attendant to the growth in my own awareness, through significantly intent times of reading, and then releasing that which would be expressed through writing. There…
Read MoreLet's Play 'What If'… An Education in Beingness
del.icio.us tags: Existence, Being, Education, Humanity, God, Religion Imagine what our world might be like if we started considering, learning, and appreciating what our divine nature naturally allows us as human beings? Imagine what it would be like if we started practicing it from Breath One, and consciously continued doing so through the last? Such training need not rely on any specific system…
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